Talk:Steve.museum

Note to any wandering admins
Yes this article has been speedied and AfDed umpteen times, this recreation was permitted at DRV TravellingCarithe Busy Bee 01:40, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Moving to a more general name
From the DRV discussion linked above, I think the article should be moved to a more general name like "Folksonomy in museums" or maybe "Tagging museums", and then include the other examples of similar museums. Can anyone suggest a more adequate name? --Enric Naval (talk) 15:46, 21 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I'm going to disagree about folksonomy in museums for the same reason I did at the DRV, I don't think it's one that every day readers would use. Since this is the name of the project in which a number of large, well-known museums are participating, why can't it stay at the project name until a common, public-use name develops. None of the non-scholarly articles seem to indentify the practice and I think naming it is perilously close to OR, as well as unnecessary. TravellingCarithe Busy Bee 16:28, 21 May 2008 (UTC)


 * So, we just make a "Similar projects" section and add stuff under that heading? --Enric Naval (talk) 07:41, 22 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Some of that is covered in "See Also" but it depends on what other notable projects there are that deserve a wikipedia article. If it's a project at one museum, it could be covered in that museum's page. What others do you know of? Maybe there's a need for a broader article but I don't see any related at the moment. TravellingCarithe Busy Bee 12:31, 22 May 2008 (UTC)


 * From the NYT source: "The Cleveland Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution and the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia, already have prototype tagging applications on their Web sites, and nearly a dozen other museums plan similar projects. (...) The Metropolitan Museum of Art ran a test in fall 2005 in which volunteers supplied keywords for 30 images of paintings, sculpture and other artwork (...) Since August 2006, the Smithsonian Photography Initiative has asked visitors to its Web site, photography.si.edu, to “Enter the Frame” and label 2,000 images culled from various archives. (...) Sebastian Chan, manager of Web services for the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, which, since its site was redesigned last June, has encouraged tagging (powerhousemuseum.com).". That can probably make up for a short section called "Similar projects". --Enric Naval (talk) 12:55, 24 May 2008 (UTC)